Front Doors Quotes:

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Sight, Doors, Wonderful, Front Doors

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Running, Doors, Worry, Front Doors

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Doors, Tea, Comes And Goes, Front Doors, Back Doors

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Home, Doors, Waiting, Front Doors

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Heart, Doors, Religion, Guarded, Front Doors

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Doors, Clean, Streets, Front Doors

I arrived home the other day, and it was just pouring rain out side so buy the time I get from the car to the front door I am soaked. I walk in side and take off my jacket and my wife says Is it raining out I couldn't help my self when I replied Nope, I had to take the gold fish for a walk. Here's your sign!

- Bill Engvall

topic: Rain, Home, Doors, Pouring Rain, Front Doors

A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair?

- Henny Youngman

topic: Husband, Fall, Home, Wheelchairs, Front Doors

On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night. And there was a guy leaning and pissing against a front door. He then took out his keys and went inside.

- Frankie Boyle

topic: Funny, Humor, Night, Front Doors

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Girl, Running, Cheating, Front Doors

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

- Robert Stack

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Doors, Rose, Front Doors, Back Doors

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

- Erki Nool

topic: Encouragement, Distance, Doors, Front Doors

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

- Sandra Cisneros

topic: Doors, Bricks, Crumbling, Swollen, Front Doors

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.18, Vintage Canada

topic: Home, Thinking, Doors, Front Doors

It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door when you're always walking through it

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Doors, Appreciate, Forget, Front Doors

Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

- Lynne Cheney

source: Lynne Cheney (2009). “Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Doors, Sky, Civilization, Casper, Front Doors

When Love runs through the front door fear runs out the back.

- Mark Beeson

topic: Running, Doors, Front Doors

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.

- Clive Barker

topic: Fall, Cat, Doors, Falling Off, Front Doors

Oh my god will you shut the front door already!

- Alex Riley

topic: Doors, Wwe, Gods Will, Front Doors

Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.

- Alex Riley

topic: Thinking, Doors, Wwe, Walking Out, Gucci

Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

- Miranda Otto

topic: Moving, Doors, People, Front Doors

People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.

- Anne Ursu

topic: Doors, People, Snow, Whiteness, Snowstorms

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

- Arthur Caplan

topic: Fall, Kids, Eugenics, Genetic Engineering, Renegades

So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be.

- Anis Mojgani

topic: Running, Doors, Hands, Fingertips, Knobs

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Doors, Lunch, People, Front Doors

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

- D. A. Carson

source: D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic

topic: Running, Boys, Doors, Front Doors

It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Lying, Front Doors

I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

- Nathan Fillion

topic: Running, Home, Doors, Front Doors

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

- Mike Mason

topic: Marriage, Beautiful, Taken, Front Doors

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

- Naomi Alderman

topic: Hero, Exercise, Doors, Front Doors

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block."

- Freda Bright

topic: Family, Block, Italian, Proclaiming, Front Doors

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

- Jean Gabin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Doors, Understood, Front Doors

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

- Leslie Nielsen

source: "Leslie Nielsen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2010.

topic: Doors, Addresses, Forget, Question Mark, Front Doors

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth,

- Robert C. Maynard

source: Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

topic: Country, Doors, Giving, Front Doors

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

- Mike Gorman

topic: Doors, Class, Stories, Burglars, Front Doors

We fight every night, now that's not kosher. I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer, And wake up to be greeted by an argument again, ...You act like you're ten. So immature, I try to concentrate on a cure, And keep lookin' at the front door.

- Extra P

source: "Song: 'Looking at the Front Door'". 1991.

topic: Rap, Fighting, Night, Kosher, Front Doors

We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos to the wall so there wouldn't be any witnesses.

- Woody Allen

topic: Wall, Doors, Practice, Doxies, Front Doors

I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Running, Believe, Adventure, Front Doors

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

- Nadine Gordimer

source: Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.277, A&C Black

topic: Children, Mean, Doors, Front Doors

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

- Kelly Osbourne

topic: Daughter, Mother, Beach, Front Doors

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

- Libba Bray

topic: Dream, Xenophobia, Ignorance, Library Cards, Front Doors

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,

- Tony Abbott

topic: Christian, Thinking, Doors, Front Doors, Back Doors

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

- Adam Duritz

topic: White, Fog, Doors, Front Doors

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

- Tony Abbott

source: "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Doors, Australia, Front Doors, Back Doors

They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.

- Jacqueline Kelly

topic: Dog, Heart, Doors, Front Doors

The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come.  The professional is sly.  He knows that by toiling beside the front door of technique, he leaves room for genius to enter by the back.

- Steven Pressfield

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Doors, Front Doors, Toiling

The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

- Emile Berliner

topic: Doors, Land, Machines, Helicopters, Landing

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Inspirational, Doors, Vacuums, Front Doors

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

- Sam Haskins

topic: Photography, New York, Love You, Socialites, Stoves

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

- Ron Reagan

source: "Interview With Justin Falconer; Interview With Ron Reagan Jr". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Air, Front Doors, Beautiful City